RHE 306 Lecture Notes - Lecture 19: Pathos
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Invention checklist: kairos arguments from immediate circumstances, timing, location, etc, the staseis arguments from where you take your stand (conjecture, topics (conjecture, degree, possibility) definition, value, policy, procedure, conjecture this exists/doesn"t exist; this will happen/will not happen; this was caused by/was not caused by, degree this is better/worse than that; this is more/less serious that that; this is more/less urgent that that, possibility this can/cannot be done; this is more/less possible; this will be/won"t be possible, commonplaces (based on the ideology or networks of interpretation of the, logos audience, artistic (enthymemes, examples, analogies, inartistic (statistics, testimony, hard data, ethos (appeals based on rhetor"s intelligence or knowledge, good character, and goodwill toward the audience, situated, invented, pathos (appeal to the emotions, pejorative or honorific language, vivid images, use of audience"s beliefs or ideology to trigger gut reaction.
